News
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New website
This new website was developed to work well on phones and tablets as well as desktop machines. The new structure makes the information easier to manage. It uses individual posts which can be pushed onto facebook. This allows us to provide information on facebook with minimal effort. It would also be easy to push to…
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Funeral of John Bainbridge
John died on New Year’s day just a few months short of his ninetieth birthday. Many of his large family, including his wife Sylvia along with a good number of our members were crowded into St Matthew’s Church, Harwell and afterwards at La Fontana in East Hanney to say goodbye to a longstanding member of…
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Oxford Music Festival – 2023
We sang My Evaline, Shenandoah and Mary Lou and were given a commendation by Stephen Carleston the adjudicator. Unfortunately we were let down by inaccurate pitch and were narrowly beaten by Harmony InSpires.
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Ray Spinks Remembered
Former member Ray passed away peacefully in hospital in late December ’22 after having spent a few months in a local care home due to his onset of dementia. Oxford Harmony sang to the care home residents and staff on the lead-up to Christmas although sadly Ray had already moved to the hospital by then.…
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Graham Cox
One of our three long time Honorary Members Graham Cox sadly passed away in October just after having achieved his 94th birthday. Graham hadn’t sung with us for the last few years but maintained an interest and his BABS membership. He was a member of Oxford Harmony’s predecessor White Horse Harmony and was also involved…
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Abingdon Music Festival – 2022
We sang Hello Mary Lou, Shenandoah and My Evaline. The adjudicator, Christine Cairns gave us an assessment of “Very Good”
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Wantage Music Festival 2022
We sang Hello Mary Lou and Shenandoah. The adjudicator, Eileen Field gave us a distinction. This was our first competitive event with Will Prior as our MD.
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Platinum Jubilee Beacon Lighting
We were invited to sing at the lighting of the Botley Beacon which is a short walk up the hill from Matthew Arnold school.
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BABS Awards and certificates
The pandemic that dare not speak its name has put a number of things on hold during the past two years and one casualty has been the presentation of BABS awards and new member certificates. The 2nd March saw us catching up on the backlog. There were 10 year pin badges for Jeff, Nigel and Tony…
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Clive Dodimead elected vice-chairman
Clive is a longstanding member of Oxford Harmony but in the three years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, had been working abroad during the week so hadn’t been able to attend many rehearsals. One of the very few positive aspects of life being turned upside down for the past 21 months is that Clive…
